Posted: 3/19/2008 7:01:04 PM EDT
| I have a walther p99as and I seem to be pulling my shots low left. what gives? |
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IIRC, you're jerking the trigger. Dry firing will tell you if you are or not...especially if you setup a "target board". I'm probably not using the "official" name for it but take a sheet of cardboard and put a row of dots on it. put a pencil in the barrel of your pistol, add tape if it doesn't fit (I have to do this on my 45's). take aim at the dot about 3-4inches away from the cardboard and dry fire at it. If the hole you make isn't perfectly in line with the dot you were aiming at then you can assess what you're doing wrong. Make sure you don't have anything breakable behind the cardboard, and don't set it up against a wall....I've had pencils go through before and they'll leave a nasty mark on a wall and could possibly break something. Other tip, make sure you're not moving your whole finger, if you do you're probably going to jerk the gun before the shot breaks. Also try using the pad of your finger, if you're not doing so already, and make sure you only move the 1st 2 joints of your finger and nothing else. Smooth and steady on the pressure too. |
Okay, you're going to have to forgive me because I've only had one cup of coffee this morning. By reading this I assume the pencil is being propelled from the barrel of the gun. My question is, WHAT is propelling the pencil? Surely you're not saying put a pencil in the barrel and then fire a live round. 
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The firing pin hit to the pencil shoots it out. Also very useful for doing a simple function check after fully disassembling a pistol w/o going to the range to make sure you reinstalled things like firing pin safeties correctly. |
Dear GOD man...I may be thick headed but I'm not THAT dense  . Though I did witness someone shoot a rod out of their black powder gun (oops), and blow up a rifle barrel when they forget to take their laser bore sighter out (oops x2 with complimentary head smack)The firing pin hits the eraser and thats what propels it. LOL the first time I did it I didn't think it would fire with all that much force, went through the cardboard and hit the wall, deflected off the wall and hit my cat who walked by right in the ass. The cat did a damn backflip and gave me the most evil glare  . Ironically she then proceeded to fall asleep in the gun cabinet right next to the 1911.Like someone else mentioned it's a good function test as well, though for that one I prefer to point the weapon up and pull the trigger. It's easier to catch the pencil than have it go flying across the room. |
| You are jerking the trigger. unload your weapon (remove the mag, rack the slide and lock it to the rear, visually and physically check that the chamber is empty and let the slide go forward.) Put a tack or something else that is small on a wall about five feet from you. Dry fire the weapon while focusing on your front sight. Try to keep the front sight on the tack all the way through the firing action. Be sure to follow through and pull the trigger all the way to the rear and hold it there. Slowly let off of it until it resets, rack the slide and start over. Practice Practice Practice. Some pistols have stiff / overly heavy triggers. If you find the trigger is too heavy, take it to a gunsmith. Don't blame a problem on the pistol until you have eliminated yourself as the problem. Practice dry firing and I'm sure you will improve. |
| When ever I start to do this, it's always because I am wrapping my trigger finger around the trigger up to the first joint. Once I get back to finger tip, or center of the finger tip "pad", I come right back on target. Always happens to me with a new pistol until I think my way through it. |